Lot 317
A George IV coffee pot
Auction: 13 February 2008 at 11:00 GMT
Description
by George McHattie, Edinburgh 1820-1821, retailed by Morton, the baluster body with fluted bottom section, the domed lid with fluted decoration and gadrooned rim, with bud finial, the spout with scroll and leaf design and acanthus terminal, the simple S scroll handle with acanthus thumbpiece and ivory insulators, the body with engraved crest
Dimensions
26cm high, 27.5oz
Footnote
Notes: The viscount's coronet above the double-headed eagle crest together with the 1820-1 assay date suggests this coffee pot to have been a wedding gift to James Boyle, while he was accorded the courtesy title of Viscount of Kelburn. James Boyle was born in 1792, second son of George Boyle, 4th Earl of Glasgow. He became heir to the earldom on the death in 1818 of his unmarried elder brother John, Lord Boyle, a naval officer.
On 4 August 1821 James Boyle, also a naval officer, married Georgina Mackenzie of New Hall and Cromarty and two years later adopted the name Carr-Boyle by Royal Licence on inheriting his mother's Car estates.
James Carr-Boyle was Lord Lieutenant and Sheriff Principal of Renfrewshire. He succeeded as 5th Earl of Glasgow in 1843 and died in 1869.